A work of shocking brutality, this unforgiving 1985 war classic from the Soviet Union charts the journey of a young...
A work of shocking brutality, this unforgiving 1985 war classic from the Soviet Union charts the journey of a young boy who joins the Soviet resistance and experiences the horrors of WWII.
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
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96 %9,529 reviewsAudience score rating
"Come and See sounds like an invitation to a child's game. Nothing could be further from the truth."
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post"Scene for scene, Mr. Klimov proves a master of a sort of unreal realism that seeks to get at events terrible beyond comprehension."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"The director has elicited an excellent performance from his central actor Kravchenko."
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Sight & Sound
Sight & Sound"I have rarely seen a film more ruthless in its depiction of human evil."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"It suggests that a war's horrors were the ultimate unassimilable experience of the shadowy depths of the human mind."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"This is a film that argues for and thoroughly understands the urgent, present-tense, shifting surreality of war. It is not merely a narrative reimagining of that experience."
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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair""Come and See" is a paradox: a visceral freefall into barbarism, but also a controlled, sometimes contemplative descent."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesCome and See | Details
- Rating
- 15, Contains strong violence and Holocaust footage
- Runtime
- 142
- Genre
- Drama, War
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
